I can't see France ever reducing deficits, or voting to raise retirement ages to something realistic. So either the ECB bails them out, or they fall out of the Eurozone, and if they do, many others probably will too. If you are going to do a full political union, this might be the last chance.

Really shows that Brexit was not about values, because there is not much divergence in them. It was about Britain being implicitly maligned over many decades merely by treated the same.

What does democracy "working" mean? Does it mean it survives more than a few years? or does it mean achieving goals: Westerners want it to force backward population sto be tolerant, prosperous, and westernized. Arabs just seem to want a rubber stamp for a strongman who keeps order.

Muslims and others will say, correctly, that Christianity is just as imperialistic as Islam is. The difference is that Christianity, even in very Christian places like Poland, Italy, or the USA, is in VERY RAPID decline. It could be dead in 40 years. That is not true of the Arab world, or Pakistan.

Islamic countries don't practice democracy, and westerners want to keep democracy. If they have to junk democracy to keep Christianity, atheism, and fight Islam, they will do that. The idea that those countries are undemocratic purely because they have oil is false. indepthnews.net/why-do-weste...

Why Do Westerners Still Think There’s An Islamic Threat?

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 23 September 2025 (IDN) — The words still ring in policy-makers' ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington's famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations. This boo...

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the fact that Trump got a very reduced Maga crowd to cheer the idea of Iran killing millions in California shows the real truth, that the flyover states think the coastal "elites" are their tormentors because they can afford *real* luxuries like, well, vital life saving surgeries.

When we suffer terror attacks of the magnitude we have (and it's not as if they aren't still trying to do WMD attacks) there needs to be consequences. Consequences for belief itself, not for believers. 9-11 disgraces Islam for all time, it also disgraces all forms of monotheism.

the GOP has gone from "we've got to keep an eye on Russa. When Putin rears his head and comes into US airspace it's Alaska" [Sarah Palin] to "Putin won't invade anywhere else. I trust him."

I'm sure Hegseth is purging all top brass whom he thinks would refuse illegal Trump orders, but how can they know who would and who would not?

Trump's numbers are on a ballistic freefall trajectory now, which is why only a coup is going to have any hope of preventing a wipeout. So that's what we will get.

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)

A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.

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I can't see the US getting to the end of 2027 without a bond market crisis

Trump says his main goal is "no nukes in Iran" but that's not true. It's a goal, but his MAIN goal is "I must get the credit for the deal." and that's the LAST thing Iran is going to allow, regardless of all the areas where both sides would compromise. Trump's political survival is the key factor.

New in Public Notice: Mike Pence finally spoke out forcefully against Trump this week. But it’s far too little too late. Pence shows how Trump destroys everything he touches

Mike Pence shows how Trump destroys everything he touches

Joining a death cult does lasting damage.

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Washington 2031.: King Donald announced that the number of subjects who must come to personally praise him or risk death in the camps is rising to 850 per day.

Nata-lee who probably is the one who posted in tRump's name missed an important detail: Greenland has no penguins. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Trump Makes Embarrassing Geography Mistake in Takeover Fantasy

Donald Trump seems to know little about the territory he’s desperate to invade. The president, 80, took a step away from the current war he is waging against Iran to publicly fantasize about invading ...

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I don't think he's done even 20% of what he promised. Tariffs don't count because they haven't raised revenue, or brought the manly jobs back. But yes, he's become extremely unpopular. bsky.app/profile/samd...

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2y ago

there’s a lot of debate over what Dems need to do to win back the voters we lost but here’s my take: It doesn’t even matter all that much bc if Trump even does 20% of what he promised, he will quickly become extremely unpopular, and his base of low-propensity voters will sit out the midterms

Somebody should ask Trump if he thinks Japan or China is a bigger economic threat. He's clearly still mentally stuck in 1983

I am astonished to learn that on J6, the #CapitolPolice had only 2,000 people, which is nowhere near enough. Unless you actually want the US Army to do civilian policing because only they have the numbers and the weapons, you will need many many thousands more Capitol Police than that.

The people of Syracuse know that the purported corruption of the Nobel Prize committee in Oslo is their biggest problem, so they've turned up to hear a rant about it.

That the US already won there will be news to Venezuelans bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're taking out for ourselves -- we deserve it. To the victor belong the spoils, right? -- we're taking out billions and billions of dollars a day."

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Trump has destroyed the US's reputation with almost all these powers, meaning that all the countries that should be US allies are much more likely to choose China's side. Americans don't and won't believe they can lose a war until they do. It might be the US that ends up blockaded.

Even if "let's import diesel from US to Russia" made any sense, and that diesel started moving from Russia to US, European countries that loathe Trump would be lining up to bomb Russia's oil industry to make sure he loses. What goes around comes around.

Trump is giving every signal that he now expects a blue wave and then multiple impeachments of his cabinet, agency heads and himself.

Rubio wants France to retake Algeria? He wants a new scramble for Africa? It sounds like he wants a scramble for somewhere. archive.ph/vPUHi

So Trump thinks the Deep State had meetings IN The White House, which means it's all in the open and not at all deep.

That's a review

I wouldn't say Trump will bomb Iran a lot next year DESPITE being impeached. In fact he might well bomb it more BECAUSE he is being impeached. But the longer the US waits, the bigger the attacks on Iran will be. Maybe after 3 Nov, Trump simply doesn't care if oil goes to $250

No wonder women under 40 don't want to date these men, even if those women are conservative.